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package io.grpc.internal;
/**
* An allocator of buffers provided by the transport implementation to {@link MessageFramer} so
* it can send chunks of data to the transport in a form that the transport can directly serialize.
*/
public interface WritableBufferAllocator {
/**
* Request a new {@link WritableBuffer} with the given {@code capacityHint}. The allocator is
* free to return a buffer with a greater or lesser capacity.
*/
WritableBuffer allocate(int capacityHint);
}